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Leon Issiah Dubinsky was born on 5 July 1941, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, to the Jewish merchant family of Newman and Esther (née Goldman) Dubinsky. [1] They owned Sydney Ship Supply, a ship chandlery business in Sydney's Whitney Pier neighbourhood, that operated from the beginning of World War II until they sold it and retired. [2]
The Cape Breton Post is the only daily newspaper published on Cape Breton Island. Founded in Sydney, Nova Scotia , in 1901, [ 3 ] it specializes in local coverage of news, events, and sports from communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and the counties of Inverness , Richmond and Victoria .
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The company owned 23 daily and weekly newspapers in Atlantic Canada including The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, the Cape Breton Post in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and the The Telegram in St. John's, Newfoundland. In March 2024, Saltwire went into bankruptcy protection, and was bought by the Toronto-based Postmedia Network in August of that year.
The transmitter was closed down for years, as the area was also being served by the CJCB-TV-2 transmitter in nearby Antigonish. [ 29 ] During the CRTC's licence renewal period in 2016, Bell Media applied for its regular license renewals, which included applications to delete 40 rebroadcast transmitters, including CJCB-TV-5.
Clarence (Clarie) Gillis (October 3, 1895 – December 17, 1960) was a Canadian social democratic politician and trade unionist from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He was born on Nova Scotia's mainland but grew up in Cape Breton. He worked in the island's underground coal mines operated by the British Empire Steel and Coal Company (BESCO).
Neil Burroughs Jr., aged 29, was a maintenance worker that served at McDonald's restaurants in Industrial Cape Breton. He lived in Glace Bay with his wife and son. He was originally from the Cape Breton town of Dominion. [1] James “Jimmy” Fagan, aged 27, was a janitor from Sydney. He was arriving for his 1:00 a.m. shift when he was shot. [2]
The Green Party sent a direct mail fundraising appeal in Mowat's name in June 2007, and that same year Mowat became a patron of the Nova Scotia Nature Trust by donating over 200 acres (0.81 km 2) of his land in Cape Breton Island to the Nature Trust. He was also an honorary director of the North American Native Plant Society. [44]